Description

Partners Group Holding AG, founded in 1996 and headquartered in Baar, Switzerland, operates as a global private markets investment manager with additional offices spanning North America, South America, Europe, Australia, and Asia. The firm engages in direct, secondary, and primary investments, alongside fund-of-funds allocations, across a diverse range of asset classes, including private equity, private real estate, private infrastructure, and private debt. Their investment strategies cover a broad spectrum, from seed capital and early-stage ventures to emerging growth, mature companies, buyouts, recapitalizations, industry consolidation, distressed situations, and special opportunities. For direct private equity, Partners Group targets sectors such as healthcare, consumer goods, media & telecommunications, education, information technology, industrials, infrastructure/energy & utilities, financial services, business services, and real estate operating companies. In private real estate, the firm actively seeks properties globally for direct investments, also participating in real estate secondaries and primaries, with a particular focus on distressed assets in the United States, Europe, and Japan. Their private debt offerings include providing senior and mezzanine financing, engaging in secondary and primary debt transactions, and contributing to add-on acquisitions, primarily targeting middle-market companies across the Americas, Europe, and Asia. The firm's energy infrastructure focus encompasses midstream operations, power generation, gas transportation and export infrastructure, and renewable energy projects, including wind and solar. Partners Group maintains a global investment mandate, with significant emphasis on countries such as South Africa, China, India, the Philippines, Austria, France, Germany, Switzerland, Russia, Brazil, and Chile. As a value-add investor, Partners Group aims for both majority and minority stakes. They typically deploy equity investments ranging from €500,000 to €100 million in companies with an enterprise value between €100 million and €2 billion. Furthermore, their fund-of-funds strategy involves allocating capital to various fund types, including venture capital, mezzanine, private equity, real estate, distressed, turnaround, and secondary funds.